JetFormBuilder <= 3.0.8 - Authenticated (Author+) Privilege Escalation

Incorrect Privilege Assignment
CVE CVE-2023-37866
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published July 10, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Rafie Muhammad
Description

The JetFormBuilder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 3.0.8. This is due to insufficient restrictions on the form builder. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to create forms that make it possible to register a user with administrative privileges.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug jetformbuilder (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.0.8
Patched Version
  • 3.0.9
This record contains material that is subject to copyright

Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc.
License: Defiant hereby grants you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute this software vulnerability information. Any copy of the software vulnerability information you make for such purposes is authorized provided that you include a hyperlink to this vulnerability record and reproduce Defiant's copyright designation and this license in any such copy. License Detail.